Master Class 7: Beadmaking with Kristina Logan (excerpt)
Kristina Logan is internationally recognized for her precisely patterned, delicate glass beads, which she combines with metalwork to create jewelry and functional objects. In the Master Class video, Logan demonstrates her process of beadmaking at the torch, finishing the glass by cold working, and incorporating her glass and silverwork into completed pieces of jewelry. Logan also discusses the history of glass beads and shares the philoso...

Studio Demonstrations: Karina Guévin & Cédric Ginart
Glass Ring Making on stainless steel mandrel.
Watch Karina Guévin & Cédric Ginart demonstrate for their Studio course, Flameworking Cocktail, in which the focus will be on providing beginners with a solid foundation in basic technical skills. Students will be introduced to various techniques using both soft (soda lime) and hard (borosilicate) glass. Working with colored rods and tubing, students will explore techniques from beadmaking to... ...

Flameworked Beads
Flameworking (sometimes called "lampworking") is the process of directing a flame onto a piece of glass in order to create form or decoration. Beads were likely among the first glass objects to be made by flameworking.
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Studio Demonstrations: Heather Trimlett
Watch Heather Trimlett demonstrate for her Beadmaking with an Introduction to Glass Buttons class at The Studio. Students of this class will learn to work smarter and more efficiently in order to gain the maximum return on torch time. The class will take the mystery out of clear casing, stringer work, large-hole beads, disc shaping. The instructor will demonstrate her "no-fail" way to create a successful hollow bead using Morreti/Effetre glass rods. The m...

Watch as Davide Penso demonstrates for his class, Venetian-Style Glass Beads, where students learned how to create blown beads utilizing the traditional techniques used at the furnace, but with a “baby pipe."
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An extensive digest on ways of encasing a bead on Wet Canvas site.
This is a long compendium of posts on encasing. included are quite a few posts on this subject because it's a technique that causes many people an enormous amount of trouble and aggravation.
Jkittels
Best way to encase, (I think) is to heat the rod until you have a very large gather of clear in a blob at the end of the rod....(I do this prior to making any beads!)..Then squish it so that you have a flat disc at the end of you...

Here's how I make my raised flowers.
Make a base bead. Pretty easy so I did not include a pic.
1. On your base bead place 6 dots around the equator.
2. Now place 1 dot on left shoulder of bead, skipping a space, then another dot, skip space, then another dot. For a total of 3 dots left side. Repeat for right shoulder. ...